Media Releases and Events

GIWA Noodle Wheat Outlook March 2019

View the full GIWA Noodle Wheat Outlook for March 2019 here (http://www.giwa.org.au/wheat-counci..

New OAT1 variety WA - Bilby

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2019 GIWA Events

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GIWA Standards Review 2018

To view results of the GIWA Standards Review 2018 and receival standards changes for 2019/20 Western..

Chemical Residues

GIWA supports the industry endorsed chemical residue and safety management practices in Growing Australian Grain 2018.

Growing Australian Grain March 2018 (3235 KB)

GIWA regularly collaborates on chemical residue issues with the National Residue Survey (NRS) which is funded by growers and administered by the Federal Department of Agriculture and Water Resources, the APVMA and the National Working Party for Grain Protection (NWPGP) which is funded by GRDC and administered by Grain Trade Australia.

GIWA currently holds one minor use permit which is valid to 31st March 2022, PER84040 for Trifluralin/Pre-Emergent Treatment in Oats for Suppression/Control of Certain Annual Grasses and Broadleaf Weeds on Oats.

GRDC fund a project called “Pesticides for Minor Uses in Grain” which identifies pesticides considered by industry to be essential for continued sustainable production of minor grain crops and then seeks to have them registered or permitted for use.

The latest list of Minor Use Permits for All Broad Acre Crops (Pulses, Oilseeds, Cereals, Other Crops, Legumes, Fallow, Grasshoppers and Locusts, Pasture, Bushland, Firebreaks and Rights of Way, Vertebrate Pests) current as at June 2017 which is issued by the consultants to the GRDC “Pesticides for Minor Uses in Grain” project can be found below.

Current Ag Pesticide Minor Use Permits all broad acre crops June 2017 (398 KB)

For further information regarding this project and Minor Use Permits in broad acre agriculture please contact the project’s consultants:

Steve Jones, email: smjones@aglignconsulting.com.au